Arachnida - Scorpiones - Buthidae

Full reference: W. R. Lourenço and W. Weitschat. 2000. New fossil scorpions from the Baltic amber - implications for Cenozoic biodiversity. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 84:247-260

Parent taxon: Buthidae according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013

See also Lourenço and Weitschat 2000

Sister taxa: Centruroides, Cretaceousbuthus, Microcharmus, Microtityus, Palaeoakentrobuthus, Palaeoananteris, Palaeogrosphus, Palaeoisometrus, Palaeolychas, Palaeospinobuthus, Palaeotityobuthus, Scorpio schweiggeri, Tityus, Tityus eogenus, Uintascorpio

Subtaxa: Palaeoprotobuthus pusillus

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Type: Palaeoprotobuthus pusillus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Damzen collection) (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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